New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-15
MR.. MANNING ALTPE.

The attempt and failure TO Dust Mr. Man
ming from the controlling interest In The
Albany Argus illustrates the pleasant re-
lations between President Cleveland and those
who were friends of Mr.. Tilden. Neither
microscopic scrutiny nor chemical analysis
will discover even :" trace Of affection be-
tween them. When Mr.. Manning was ebowed
out of the Cabinet, partly because he was not
much Of toady partly because he had been
friend of Mr.. Tilden, and partly because 1t
is always dangerous to confer favoIs too great
ever to be repaid, the world suspected that
he would not SO easily be ignored In the
politics of New York Mr.. Lamont, at present
the reignng favorite at the White House.
thought differently. The purchase OF con-
trolling interest in the Albany organ was the
lever by which he proposed to hoist the eX-
Secretary out of all political influence. Ac-
cording to Democratic accounts, the effort 80
nearly succeeded that accusations OF bad faith
are flying around, but after all he does not
succeed, and the fact that rcsolute and
successful steps to defeat him were promptly
taken indicates that the ex-Secretary does not
propose to become cipher in politics.
But the Democratic opponents of Mr.
Cleveland, whether large or small, may as
well ask themselves what they are hoping to
accomplish. If there were another possible
candidate, there would be ray Of daylight
for them; but what other man Is possible
To nominate any other candidate in his stead
would kindle all sorts of angry passions in
the breasts of the Mugwumps, who were
sponsors for Mr.. Cleveland at his political
baptism, and who have since felt under bonds
to sneeze when he took snuff. Little In
fiuence as they certainly have, it might easily
count for more than the SIS votes whose
change would have turned New-York In 1884
Even If Mr. Cleveland were dead this day.
what other candidate could the Democrats
nominate? Governor Hill has dreams, OF
course, but to characterize such choice
would require the gifted tongue of the New
Hampshire farmer, who, when told OF the
nomina ton of "aour Frank Perse,' sOemnly
remarked, "Wcll, come to spread him over
the hull country seems to me he's mighty
thin The of1ice-hOldcrs and the Office
seekers all over the country are the friends
and tools of other men who have other aims.
Mr.. Bayard would thrust his incapacity for
ward, and Mr.. Humans friends would not
forget his wrongs, and then swarm CT
smaller candidates, in number and venom
rivalling the jersey mosquito, would assert
their right to be considered before David
Bennett Hill. What a scramble there would
be, and what a monkey-and- parrot time in
convention.
Mr.. Cleveland survives-at least until No
vember Of next year. Long-headcd Demo-
Gratis have perceived before this time that
about that date he may suddenly relapse into
oblivion but that there is no other way to
get rid Of him. Mr.. Manning probably con-
sideIs that in the month of November, 1883.
it will be convenient for him to resume the
influential position in the party of which he
temporarily deprived himself, when he made
a President out of Man of Destiny who has
a talent for forgetting.